capturing fly creatures

[augustinoi]

someone have some photo about capture, shines and puff, becouse ranches do not able to get tham by hand and traps needs plastic to be made and i can just do that in advanced play. actualy is kind of hard to do plastic as ok so i never capture this creatures yet.

[landromat]

2 minutes ago, augustinoi said:

someone have some photo about capture, shines and puff, becouse ranches do not able to get tham by hand and traps needs plastic to be made and i can just do that in advanced play. actualy is kind of hard to do plastic as ok so i never capture this creatures yet.

best way is to build stables around creature, tame it, get egg and incubate it in the place you want

[SamLogan]

You can also make a food storage in the room that you want some flying creature and store their eggs. It's slower than the incubator but electricity-free.

[blash365]

I'd suggest you go with one of the two strategies mentioned above. The creature lure isnt exactly a comfortable way to move aerial creatures anyway. The only advantage of it is that you can salvage it after usage and regain the plastic.

[avc15]

2 hours ago, landromat said:

best way is to build stables around creature, tame it, get egg and incubate it in the place you want

Or if you can  spot an egg just carry it to your desired incubator.

Lures have various problems. Even if they worked right, they're just cumbersome.

[crypticorb]

Lures only have a 15 tile effective radius. This limits their usefulness considerably, as the only way to move live flying critters is to build a lure, fill it, build a second lure, deconstruct the first lure, and bunny-hop each time deconstructing and rebuilding lures until you get them where you want.

If you mess up the process anywhere, or let a lure run out of bait, you have to start all over again.

Best method is to wait until the wild critter lays an egg, and move that.

[blash365]

You can also slowly herd flying creatures with pneumatic doors.

Critters can not pass pneumatic doors in automatic mode, which allows you to actively open the doors, then wait for the critters to pass the door and shut the door behind them (on auto mode).

Eventually you will be able to herd the critters in the room of your preference. This is very cumbersome and i'd prefer waiting for an egg to drop and simply carrying it to a ratiobox any day.

[PhailRaptor]

3 hours ago, blash365 said:

You can also slowly herd flying creatures with pneumatic doors.

Critters can not pass pneumatic doors in automatic mode, which allows you to actively open the doors, then wait for the critters to pass the door and shut the door behind them (on auto mode).

Eventually you will be able to herd the critters in the room of your preference. This is very cumbersome and i'd prefer waiting for an egg to drop and simply carrying it to a ratiobox any day.

You can do this, but it is an extremely frustrating and time consuming process, not just in the time it takes to get the creature to move, but also the time it takes for a Dupe to toggle the door from Open to Automatic.

I have also had the issue of the flyer moving into the Door at exactly the same time that the Dupe finally shows up to toggle the door.  Repeatedly, for the next 20+ minutes.  On the same door.  Over and over again.

*Destructive stress response*

[0xFADE]

I have a few shine bugs floating around the base and I set up a feeder for them.  They seem to path to it when they are hungry even when they wander very far away.

[Miravlix]

Gather eggs, wild critters lay one egg to replace them self, so it's easy to just use egg gathering to get critters.

 

Incidentally that is also a HUGE warning to not gather eggs and make omelettes as it will kill off the critter population.

[Coolthulhu]

On 5/5/2018 at 8:19 PM, PhailRaptor said:

I have also had the issue of the flyer moving into the Door at exactly the same time that the Dupe finally shows up to toggle the door.  Repeatedly, for the next 20+ minutes.  On the same door.  Over and over again.

PROTIP: Sensors+auto wire can be toggled without dupes.

Still more annoying than just carrying an egg, but more pleasant than the two other methods of moving flying critters (dupe controlled doors and lures). But then, herding pufts with lures is about as fun as walking on legos, except less badass.